Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homespun hero of the silent cinema; of a throat infection; in Hollywood. During the early '203 he blushed, grinned and gallus-thumbed his way into $100,000 a picture, spent much of his fortune on turquoise bathtubs, lost most of the remainder in his independent production of The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923). Penniless by 1934, he later accepted bit parts, tried to write scripts...
Last Saturday, one of our more prominent Ensigns and one of our loveliest WAVES, after a four week whirlwind, high frequency courtship, completed a coupled circuit in a little church on Staten Island, New York...
This happy couple had a whirlwind courtship; they went out to dinner and auditing practically every night . . . (they did not play the ponies...
...week. Four or five are chosen and told on the program by red-haired Peter Donald, actor and dialectitian. The decibels of laughter from the studio audience are registered on a "laughmeter." After each joke the Senator and his colleagues tell one on the same subject (matrimony, money, courtship, etc.), try to outmeter the contestant. If he is not outmetered, he stands to win from...
...Chinese woman, aware of the law against polygamy but forced by war to share a roof with another, waits patiently for the time to resume the fight for monogamy. To these wives the death of Lin Sen was the loss of a great friend, the month-long ban on courtship a welcome breather...